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Lord Roberts statue
Plinth relief. Sculptor: Harry Bates, 1916.
The most dramatically positioned statue in Glasgow, perched above the steep slope of Kelvingrove Park, with the grandeur of Park Circus behind.
Frederick Sleigh Roberts (1832-1914), Field Marshall Earl Roberts, a popular military leader, died of pneumonia after visiting the front line early in the Great War.
The original for this statue was erected in Calcutta (Kolkata) in 1898. It was the suggestion of Lord Roberts' widow that the Glasgow memorial should be a duplicate of the Calcutta statue. By this time Harry Bates had also died, but his widow agreed to the casting of another copy. In 1924 a further replica of the Calcutta original was produced for Horse Guards' Parade in London.
I knew an old chap forty odd years ago who would walk up to this statue every day with his decrepit, smelly spaniel, The spaniel would widdle on the plinth, and the pair would then stagger home again. I asked him why they never varied their destination, and he said that in 1914 he had waved Lord Robert off at Waverley Station.
Lord Roberts statue
Plinth relief. Sculptor: Harry Bates, 1916.
The most dramatically positioned statue in Glasgow, perched above the steep slope of Kelvingrove Park, with the grandeur of Park Circus behind.
Frederick Sleigh Roberts (1832-1914), Field Marshall Earl Roberts, a popular military leader, died of pneumonia after visiting the front line early in the Great War.
The original for this statue was erected in Calcutta (Kolkata) in 1898. It was the suggestion of Lord Roberts' widow that the Glasgow memorial should be a duplicate of the Calcutta statue. By this time Harry Bates had also died, but his widow agreed to the casting of another copy. In 1924 a further replica of the Calcutta original was produced for Horse Guards' Parade in London.
I knew an old chap forty odd years ago who would walk up to this statue every day with his decrepit, smelly spaniel, The spaniel would widdle on the plinth, and the pair would then stagger home again. I asked him why they never varied their destination, and he said that in 1914 he had waved Lord Robert off at Waverley Station.